Real Talk.
Do big-footers and little-toothers really want to create this state or is it just a vehicle to exploit Kismayo's population and port resources? I am not against that if that's the aim, god knows you need the port. I ask this because whenever "Jubbaland State" is mentioned, its about Kismayo alone. The Marehan fail to mention Gedo and the Ogaden fail to mention Afmadow and Doobleey in this equation. If you want to start a state, you start a state, not a
city with a state. If you want to start a state, you hold your meetings where its most convenient; a safe settlement inhabited only by those its meant to serve (Marehan in Garbahareey, and Ogaden in Doobleey) and this becomes your capital and carry on from there, once the state is finalized you then expand to other areas that your clan inhabits, in this case Kismayo is the end point where Ceerigaabo was for Somaliland and Gaalkacyo was for Puntland.
I don't know shit about the iidoor state, so take Puntland for example, in the early 90s while our most important city Bosaso was unstable and exchanging hands, nobody gave a fuck, everyone from clan elders to the SSDF were convening in Garowe. When Garowe had a functioning parliament, Bosaso was later incorporated. Our entire society was cooped up in a small village working out a blueprint for the state while the port and major cities were in anarchy. Today that little village is known as a fortress and political symbol, its a shame because the whole area is inhabited by less people than in Bardera and Afmadow but you guys don't care about that.
All you guys can talk about is who lives in Kismayo and what you did in Kismayo but not one person here or in the Gedo section talks about other cities in this Jubbaland state, they mention other cities on wholly different topics, never about them in a state context.
This is the truth and no bullshit, its not that your clans are incapable of doing this or that its impossible, its that you should actually talk to your communities and find out that they simply don't want a Jubbaland state, they only want a port to expand commercial opportunities.
Can anyone tell me I'm wrong and prove otherwise?
